Welcome to Media IT

The Media IT Group is interested in the design of usable IT for different future media genres. Media IT as a research program focuses on three important changes in society:

  • the development of new information technologies

  • alterations in media consumption behavior

  • the ongoing convergence between different types of media

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Latest News
2010-06-08
Halmstad Living Lab has been granted 1.196.000 SEK for the three year LILAN project SOCIALL funded by Nordforsk.

2010-04-26
Carina Ihlström Eriksson is participating in the cross-disciplinary network "Framtidens medietider" with 15 other media researchers. The network has been granted funds from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for six seminars during a three year period.

2010-04-15
Halmstad Living Lab was on the cover of the April issue of VINNOVAnytt.

2010-03-01
Halmstad Living Lab has been granted SEK 3.768.000 SEK for the three year AAL project Express2Connect (E2C).

2010-02-15
Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson are track chairs for the Future oriented approaches to digital innovation track at MCIS 2010 in Tel Aviv.

2009-10-30
Halmstad Living Lab has passed the Clarification and Negotiation phase for the AAL project Express to Connect (E2C).

2009-10-23
Halmstad Living Lab has been granted 100.000 SEK to write an application to the Interreg IVA Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak-program called "Brukarstyrd omsorgsteknologi" together with Borg Innovasjon AS in Norway.

2009-09-25
Maria Åkesson defended her doctoral thesis "Digital Innovations in the Value Networks of Newspapers" at IT University Gothenburg. Pär Ågerfalk was the opponent.

     

2009-09-24
Carina Ihlström Eriksson gave her "Docentföreläsning" called "The Digital Journey of Newspapers" on September 24th.

2009-06-10
 VINNOVA has granted the project Silver Technology 995.000 SEK for a 6 months pilot study divided between Halmstad Living Lab and Stockholm Living Lab. The total application concerns 4.000.000:-. Carina Ihlström Eriksson is the project leader.

2009-06-08
 The "Free2Ride" project has been granted 1.500.000:- from VINNOVA which will be divided by three partners; Halmstad University, Free2Move and Hylte- and Laholms ryttarförening. Jesper Svensson is the project leader.

2009-05-28
Carina Ihlström Eriksson was the opponent when Emma Eliason defended her thesis "Value Awareness in Web-site Design" at Örebro University.

2009-03-15
 Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Maria Åkesson are mini-track chairs together with Carolyn Watters for Innovation and Situated Design for Digital Media Applications at HICSS 43.

2009-01-28
 Carina Ihlström Eriksson and Per Andersson-Ek presented the UbiMedia project at DagsVara 2009 in Stockholm.

2008-12-19
The "Local newspaper 2.0 - with engaged readers" (LoCoMedia) project has been granted 2.015.000 SEK from KK-stiftelsen over a two year period. Partners are Helsingborgs Dagblad Nya Medier AB, Göteborgs-Posten Nya AB, Mediebolaget i Halland AB, NA Tidningar AB, Sydsvenskan AB, VLT and Västkustmedia AB.

2008-12-18
Carina Ihlström Eriksson was the opponent when Anna Ståhlbröst defended her thesis "Forming Future IT - The Living Lab Way of User Involvement" at Luleå University of Technology.

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Projects

SOCIALL has been granted 1.196.000:- from Nordforsk.

Express2Connect has been granted 3.768.000:- from EU (AAL) and VINNOVA.

Free2Ride has been granted 1.500.000:- from VINNOVA.

The Local Newspaper 2.0 - with engaged readers (LoCoMedia) has been granted 2.015.000:- from KK Foundation.

Silver Technology has been granted 1.000.000:- from VINNOVA.

Secure at home - Smart Locks has been granted 1.500.000:- from VINNOVA.

Secure at home - Living Lab has been granted 1.600.000:- from VINNOVA.

Designing Ubiquitous Media Services through Action Reserach (UbiMedia) has been granted 2.490.000:- from KK Foundation.

The DigiNews project has been approved by ITEA and we have been granted 1.650.000:- from VINNOVA.

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Student Projects
The Media IT Group is currently looking for students interested in design and business models of future media. This spring several student groups are going to do projects and writing thesis within our projects. 

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Latest Publications
 Åkesson, M., Ihlström Eriksson, C., & Kautz, K. (2010). Engaged Design Science: Developing Visions for the future e-Newspaper. Accepted to ICIS 2010, St. Louis, Missouri, December 12-15.

Svensson, J., Ihlström, C., & Ebbesson, E. (2010). User Contribution in Innovation Processes - Reflections from a Living Lab Perspective. In Proceedings of HICSS'43, Kauai, Hawaii, January 5-8.

Bergvall-Kåreborn, B., Ihlström Eriksson, C., Ståhlbröst, A., & Svensson, J. (2009). A Milieu for Innovation - Defining Living Lab. Presented at the 2nd ISPIM Innovation Symposium, New York, December 6-9.

Svensson, J., & Ihlström Eriksson, C. (2009). Challenges with User involvement in a Living Lab context. Accepted to eChallenges 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, October 21-23.

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